Truer notions of genetic physiology are given by the Hebrew expression "seed". If we speak of a man as "of the blood-royal" we think at once of plebeian dilution, and we wonder how much of the royal fluid is likely to be "in his veins"; but if we say he is "of the seed of Abraham" we feel something of the permanence and indestructibility of that germ which can be divided and scattered among all nations, but remains recognisable in type and characteristics after 4000 years.


Australian Meeting of the British Association. Inaugural Address. August 20th, 1914.

William Bateson Quotes

Truer notions of genetic physiology are given by the Hebrew expression seed. If we speak of a man as of the blood-royal we think at once of plebeian...

Truer notions of genetic physiology are given by the Hebrew expression seed. If we speak of a man as of the blood-royal we think at once of plebeian...

Truer notions of genetic physiology are given by the Hebrew expression seed. If we speak of a man as of the blood-royal we think at once of plebeian...

Truer notions of genetic physiology are given by the Hebrew expression seed. If we speak of a man as of the blood-royal we think at once of plebeian...